GitHub Store 1.8.3 — Forges, Privacy Translators & Power-User Polish

🚀 GitHub Store 1.8.3 — Forges, Privacy Translators & Power-User Polish

Codeberg + Forgejo land. Self-hosted Git forges become first-class citizens. Three new privacy-respecting translation engines join Google + Youdao. KSafe encrypts every persisted credential. Web-OAuth sign-in. Plus a wave of perf, layout, and edge-case fixes.

✨ New Features

🌲 Codeberg + Forgejo + Gitea Support

• Paste any Codeberg.org, Forgejo, or Gitea repository URL in the manual-link sheet — GHS picks an asset, downloads, installs, and polls for updates exactly like a GitHub repo
• Details screen fully wired for foreign forges — readme, releases, stats, and downloads all load from the forge directly (no GitHub fallback for non-GitHub repos)
• License sniffing for forge repos (regex SPDX detection from /contents/LICENSE since Forgejo has no /license endpoint)
• Source chip on every row tells you where the app came from
• Self-hosted? Tweaks → Network → Custom forges accepts any hostname
• Search now has a GitHub / Codeberg / custom-forge source toggle — plus a chip per custom forge you've added
• Smart auto-match sweeps GitHub + Codeberg + custom forges in parallel (bounded fanout, per-call timeout, candidate budget)

🔐 Privacy-Respecting Translation Engines (#644)

• LibreTranslate — works out of the box via the bundled public Disroot mirror, or paste your own self-hosted URL for max privacy. Optional API key
• DeepL — auth key auto-routes Free (:fx suffix) vs Pro endpoints. Pro tier keeps text private; Free tier disclosed in-app
• Microsoft Azure Translator — No-Trace by default (text never stored, never used for training, GDPR/HIPAA compliant). 2M chars/month free
• "Get a free key →" deep links straight to signup pages

🔑 Per-Host Access Tokens

• Tweaks → Access Tokens accepts PATs for GitHub, Codeberg, and any custom forge
• AES-256-GCM encrypted via KSafe (hardware-backed Keystore on Android)
• OAuth signed-in users see the GitHub preset hidden — no confusion
• Higher rate limits + private repo access when authenticated per host

🌐 Web-OAuth Sign-In

• Sign in with GitHub now uses the standard web flow — tap, authorize in browser, done
• No more 8-digit device code dance

🛡️ KSafe Everywhere

• All persisted preferences and credentials AES-256-GCM encrypted via KSafe — GitHub auth tokens, proxy credentials, app settings, device ID, mirror choice, coachmarks, announcements cache, plus the new per-host PATs and translation provider keys
• Hardware-backed Keystore on Android
• Existing data migrates seamlessly on first launch
• Safe-wrappers around every KSafe call — crash-proof for 1.8.2 → 1.8.3 upgrades

📐 Content Width Preference (Desktop)

• New Tweaks → Appearance → Content width: Compact (680dp, default), Wide (960dp), Extra wide (full window)
• Mouse wheel in empty side gutters scrolls the content column (gesture-aware, doesn't fight LazyColumn touch on Android)

🍎 macOS via Homebrew

• brew install --cask github-store from the new tap

🇸🇰 Keep Android Open Coalition

• Joined the coalition — in-app banner on Apps explains why

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Multi-flavor apps (e.g. OSS-DocumentScanner ships generic + Play APKs) — Details no longer shows a false "Update" CTA when one variant is current
• Platform chips on Details now open Search filtered by that platform (was a no-op)
• Android 12 keyboard search button triggers search across Chinese IMEs
• Externally-linked repo banner on Details with one-tap unlink
• Sign-in opens device-code URL prefilled + copies a paste-friendly code
• Android 16 / custom-ROM crash on Settings + download failure — falls back to internal storage when external is blocked
• Magisk / KernelSU / APatch detection on Android 13+ — previous probe was masked by SELinux
• Pinned-variant label refreshes across releases — stale beta/rc qualifiers gone
• README and release-notes keep scroll position when you scroll past and return
• macOS Compose a11y NPE guarded on both AWT event-queue path and coroutine-failure path
• DB downgrade survival — switching back to an older build no longer crashes ("migration from 18 to 17" hardening)
• Forgejo release bodies normalize CRLF so GFM tables render correctly
• Forgejo release assets without content_type now decode (was silently dropping the whole releases list)
• URL paste in the auto-link sheet verifies the repo actually exists before showing a 100% match
• Empty-state gutters on Desktop no longer eat scroll input or invert wheel direction
• Smart-match scan respects a 5-second skip button if it's taking too long
• Import scan caps Forgejo fanout to 12 unmatched candidates (24 if user added custom forges) — done in seconds instead of minutes

⚡ Performance

• README + release-notes markdown re-render no longer triggered ~10×/sec by download progress updates
• Chunked progressive markdown with off-main pre-processing — large READMEs (Gadgetbridge, Kubernetes) no longer freeze the UI
• Image painters memoized — no more reload flicker on recomposition
• Parallel Forgejo fanout with bounded Semaphore(8) concurrency + per-call withTimeoutOrNull(4s) cap
• Forgejo HTTP client registry honors proxy changes + closes cached clients on shutdown

🎨 UX Polish

• Manual link sheet sorts by installer source (F-Droid / Obtainium first, system updates last) with source chip per app
• Smart match suggests ranked repos from GitHub + Codeberg + your custom forges
• GFM alert callouts (Note / Tip / Important / Warning / Caution) render as tinted cards
• Emoji shortcodes — :rocket: → 🚀 (~250 covered)
• SVG images render natively; theme-aware images respect light/dark; browser-like UA unblocks CDN-hotlinked badges
• Code blocks syntax-highlighted (Kotlin / Java / Python / JS/TS / Rust / Swift / C# / Ruby / Shell, theme-aware)
• Markdown polish — HTML blockquotes + <pre><code> render, sub/superscript → unicode, HTML entities decoded
• Collapsible <details> render as tap-to-expand cards; badge/button image rows flow inline
• Manual matching trusts your version — no re-download to verify
• Section-aware sort across library — Installed, Starred, Favourites each remember their own choice
• Custom forges dialog explains that Codeberg / gitea.com / git.disroot.org are built-in
• Suggestion rows show source-host chip (GitHub / Codeberg / custom) so you know where matches come from
• Translation auto-target picker exposes all 33 supported languages (was capped to 13 app-UI locales)
• Translation protects code fences, HTML tags, markdown link URLs, bare URLs, and GFM alert markers from translation

Full Changelog: 1.8.2...1.8.3

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